zurich
08-May-2005, 22:17
I made the "switch" early last week to a 12 inch PowerBook as my "main PC" - mostly because I find myself typing reports nowadays instead of gaming - and WOW - colour me impressed. I had heard how much nicer of a "computing" experience Mac's offered, but now I know first hand! Tiger is awesome - honestly, it's so advanced, it feels like Windows 2009. The PowerBook itself is incredible too - my buddy's 12 inch widescreen Dell Inspiron 700m feels like cheap plastic in comparison!
I'm having trouble getting used to a few Mac "quirks", ie: 4 years of living and working in "My Documents" is hard to break and "command-click" is a bit cumbersome. I finally found the "snap to grid" option for icon sorting (thank god). I would have liked to use the "Documents", "Movies", "Pictures", etc. directory, but all the junk that various programs have installed there is a bit of a turn-off. I suppose I'll get accustomed to the file/directory structure soon.
What has really impressed me has been this little PowerBook's speed! At one point I was transferring gigs of stuff over the wireless network (to the PowerBook), downloading stuff in Azureus and EDonkey, importing music wirelessly in iTunes, had 3-4 Safari windows open with flash/java, AND was installing Office and the system barely skipped a beat! Very, very impressive. Ofcourse the chasis almost became too hot to touch, but still..
Now if Apple could just make a matching aluminum two-button BlueTooth mouse with a scroll-wheel....!!
With Windows XP getting more and more dated everyday, spyware/malware/viruses/security exploits/etc. making upkeeping an XP box a full time job, and Longhorn not looking like it will be out until sometime in 2006, could this be Apple's big chance? I've been a Windows user forever, but I guess I'm really only now seeing what I've been missing.
Any other converts?
I'm having trouble getting used to a few Mac "quirks", ie: 4 years of living and working in "My Documents" is hard to break and "command-click" is a bit cumbersome. I finally found the "snap to grid" option for icon sorting (thank god). I would have liked to use the "Documents", "Movies", "Pictures", etc. directory, but all the junk that various programs have installed there is a bit of a turn-off. I suppose I'll get accustomed to the file/directory structure soon.
What has really impressed me has been this little PowerBook's speed! At one point I was transferring gigs of stuff over the wireless network (to the PowerBook), downloading stuff in Azureus and EDonkey, importing music wirelessly in iTunes, had 3-4 Safari windows open with flash/java, AND was installing Office and the system barely skipped a beat! Very, very impressive. Ofcourse the chasis almost became too hot to touch, but still..
Now if Apple could just make a matching aluminum two-button BlueTooth mouse with a scroll-wheel....!!
With Windows XP getting more and more dated everyday, spyware/malware/viruses/security exploits/etc. making upkeeping an XP box a full time job, and Longhorn not looking like it will be out until sometime in 2006, could this be Apple's big chance? I've been a Windows user forever, but I guess I'm really only now seeing what I've been missing.
Any other converts?